Railsback's Petroleum Geoscience and Subsurface Geology

Rocks relevant to petroleum I: hydrology and rheology

This is the first of three pages relating conventional
and unconventional hydrocarbon accumulations to
the hydrology and rheology of the rocks in which they
are found. Parts II and III will add more detail to the
template below.

Ductile
Salt Impossible
Interconnected fractures

lithology
(halite) (Pores of ductile
materials collapse)

Rheology
Shale

Calcarous shale Lithic

sandstone
Marl Siltstone Grain-size continuum of siliciclastic sediments
Fine Sandstone Coarse
Brittle Compositional continuum
of fine-grained sediments
Grain-size continuum
Carbonate
Coal Carbonate mudstone
of carbonate sediments

grainstone
interconnected large pores
Impermeable Permeable
Hydrology LBR 11/2012
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